Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic Strike-through textconsequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3000x3173, 2408 KB) Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California The car is a Ford Model B (AKA V8). Creation date 1936 Original file digital scan of the original negative, 20MB TIFF file, edited and converted to JPEG by User:Moondigger... The Indio Fashion Mall. ... A photographer at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. ... Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (i. ... Paul Schuster Taylor (born in 1895 in Sioux City, Iowa, died 1985 in Berkeley) was a progressive agricultural economist. ... is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... A photographer at the Calgary Folk Music Festival Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. ... Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (i. ... For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ... Photo of a sharecropper by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration Initially created as the Resettlement Administration in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration was an effort during the Depression to combat rural poverty. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Photographer. ...

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, her birth name was Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn. She eventually dropped her middle and last names, adopting her mother's maiden name of Lange. Lange developed polio in 1902, at age 7. Like many other polio victims before treatment was available, Lange emerged with a weakened and wizened right leg and dropped foot. Although she compensated well for her disability, she always limped. fuck you stupid bitch''''Bold text'
Bold text' Lange learned photography in New York City in a class taught by Clarence H. White and informally apprenticed herself to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, where she opened a successful portrait studio. She lived across the bay in Berkeley for the rest of her life. In 1920, she married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons: Daniel, born 1925, and John, born 1928.^[1] Map of New Jersey highlighting Hoboken Image of Hoboken taken by NASA (red line shows where Hoboken is). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Clarence Hudson White, photographed by Fred Holland Day Clarence Hudson White (1871 - 1925) was an American photographer and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. ... Self-portrait Arnold Genthe ( 1869- 1942) was a photographer, most well known for his photos of San Franciscos Chinatown and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployed and homeless people captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA). For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Photo of a sharecropper by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration Initially created as the Resettlement Administration in 1935 as part of the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration was an effort during the Depression to combat rural poverty. ...

In December 1935, she divorced Dixon and married agricultural economist Paul Schuster Taylor, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] Taylor educated Lange in social and political matters, and together they documented rural poverty and the exploitation of sharecroppers and migrant laborers for the next five years — Taylor interviewing and gathering economic data, Lange taking photos. Paul Schuster Taylor (born in 1895 in Sioux City, Iowa, died 1985 in Berkeley) was a progressive agricultural economist. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ...

From 1935 to 1939, Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten — particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers — to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lange's Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson

Lange's most well-known picture is titled "Migrant Mother". The woman in the photo is Florence Owens Thompson, but Lange apparently never knew her name. The original photo had Florence's thumb and index finger on the tent pole, and was retouched in an attempt to hide Florence's thumb. Her index finger was left untouched (lower right in photo). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (6205x8066, 5528 KB) Image:Lange-MigrantMother. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (6205x8066, 5528 KB) Image:Lange-MigrantMother. ... Florence Owens Thompson (September 1, 1903 - September 16, 1983), born Florence Leona Christie, is famous for being the subject of Dorothea Langes photo Migrant Mother (1936), an iconic image of the Great Depression. ... Florence Owens Thompson (September 1, 1903 - September 16, 1983), born Florence Leona Christie, is famous for being the subject of Dorothea Langes photo Migrant Mother (1936), an iconic image of the Great Depression. ...

In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph: Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.

According to Thompson's son, Lange got some details of this story wrong,^[2] but the impact of the picture was based on the image showing the strength and need of migrant workers.

Lange's photo of the Japanese Relocation

In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese-Americans (Nisei) to relocation camps in the American West, on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). She covered the rounding up of Japanese Americans, their evacuation into temporary assembly centers, and Manzanar, the first of the permanent internment camps. To many observers, her photograph of young Japanese-American girls pledging allegiance to the flag shortly before they were sent to internment camps is a haunting reminder of this policy of detaining people without charging them with any crime or affording them any appeal. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... Nisei (二世 lit. ... The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was U.S. civilian agency responsible for the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The WRA was created by President Roosevelt on March 18, 1942 with Executive Order 9102 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. ... Manzanar, located in Californias Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps (see Terminology section below) where 120,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. It is...

Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded them. Today her photographs of the internment are available in the National Archives on the website of the Still Photographs Division, and at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

In 1952, Lange co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture. In the last two decades of her life, Lange's health was poor. She suffered from gastric problems, including bleeding ulcers, as well as post-polio syndrome — although this renewal of the pain and weakness of polio was not yet recognized by most physicians. She died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965, aged 70.^[1] Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aperture is a renowned quarterly photography magazine, and also a highly respected major publisher of nearly 500 books of fine art photography. ... Endoscopic images of a duodenal ulcer. ... Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a condition that frequently affects survivors of poliomyelitis, a viral infection of the nervous system, after recovery from an initial paralytic attack of the virus. ... Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...

Lange was survived by her second husband, Paul Taylor, two children, three step-children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

In 1972 the Whitney Museum used 27 of Lange's photographs in an exhibit entitled Executive Order 9066. This exhibit highlighted the Japanese Internment during World War 2.

References

• Geoffrey Dunn, "Untitled Depression Documentary" 1980
• Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life New York, 1978
• Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange, Encyclopedia of the Depression
• Linda Gordon, Paul Schuster Taylor, American National Biography
• Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro, Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

• [1] Civil Control Station, Registration for evacuation and processing. San Francisco, April 1942. War Relocation Authority, Photo By Dorothea Lange,From the National Archive and Records Administration taken for the War Relocation Authority courtesy of the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, California. Published in Image and Imagination, Encounters with the Photography of Dorothea Lange, Edited by Ben Clarke, Freedom Voices, San Francisco, 1997

• [2] Pledge of allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks prior to evacuation, April, 1942. N.A.R.A.; 14GA-78 From the National Archive and Records Administration taken for the War Relocation Authority courtesy of the Bancroft Library. Published in Image and Imagination, Encounters the Photography of Dorothea Lange, Edited by Ben Clarke, Freedom Voices, San Francisco, 1997

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External links

[[Dorothea Lange: “Fotógrafa del pueblo]”] [3]

• Article About Migrant Mother: The True Story
• Dorothea Lange - "A Photographers Journey" - Exhibition at Gendell Gallery
• 1964 oral history interview with Lange
• Essay: 'Migrant Mother', a case study in propaganda.
• Oakland Museum of California - Dorothea Lange
• Gallery of all Lange FSA photographs at the Library of Congress
• Selection of photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection